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You can then number the parts or use some other method so that you select which part of the elephant you are going to “Eat” (which part of the room to clean).
There can be a break between each part “eaten,” or some reward such as a cookie and saying to yourself, “Good Job!” You continue to “Eat the elephant” until the task is completed.
Use this same idea with homework. It is Monday and this is your homework assignment:
• You have to learn twenty spelling words by Friday.
• You have to memorize a twenty-line poem by Thursday.
• You have to do two pages of math for tomorrow.
• You have to read eight pages in science and answer the
questions at the end of the chapter
Using our Elephant, you divide the work into its parts.
There is a lot of science homework and it is due tomorrow, so you make the homework the elephant’s body, the largest part of the elephant. Two pages of math are going to take some time, so make each page an elephant’s ear.
You have to memorize twenty lines by Thursday. That is seven lines each night for the next three nights. An elephant does not have three of any thing but you can use its eyes and nose (trunk) and “eat” one each night. Spelling is easy--twenty words and there are four nights until the test. Learn five words each night. Use the elephant’s four legs for what you have to “eat.” That will be one leg each night.
How easy.
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